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Vladimir
Vernadsky, Problems of Biogeochemistry, Part II, (edited
G. Evelyn Hutchinson), 1944
Vladimir Vernadsky (1863-1945) and Winogradsky shared a similar
background--both came from an agricultural region in southern
Russia, attended St. Petersburg University in the 1870s-1880s,
and grounded their scientific world view in Russian holism. Vernadsky--who
had a much more gregarious and aggressive scientific style--developed
numerous and extensive research programs, founded the science
of biogeochemistry and developed the modern conception of the
biosphere. One of the founders of ecosystem ecology (editor of
this English translation) Yale University’s G. Evelyn Hutchinson,
took great interest in Soviet biogeochemistry. A zoologist and
limnologist by training, Hutchinson adopted and developed Vernadsky’s
holistic vision and methods, eventually training the first generation
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Erasmus
Darwin, Zoonomia, 1793 |
Charles
Darwin, On the Formation of Vegetable Matter by Worms, 1881 |
Alexander
von Humboldt, Cosmos, 1858 |
Dumas
and Boussingault, Balance of Organic Matter, 1844 |
Ferdinand
Cohn, Bacteria, The Smallest Living Beings, 1872 |
Louis
Pasteur, Etudes sur la Biere, 1862 |
Selman
Waksman, Sergei Winogradsky, 1953 |
Selman
Waksman, Humus, 1939 |
Vladimir
Vernadsky, Principles of Biogeochemistry, 1960 |
James
Lovelock, An Homage to Gaia, 1985 |
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